Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.

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Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.
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Recent Episodes

May 29, 2020
430: All Good Things
<p>It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.</p> <p>Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-32-workstation/">What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation</a></li><li><a title="Fedora 32 ChangeSet" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/32/ChangeSet">Fedora 32 ChangeSet</a></li><li><a title="Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/linux-distro-review-fedora-workstation-32/">Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/428">TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check</a></li><li><a title="ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/">ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="Find Jim on 2.5 Admins" rel="nofollow" href="https://2.5admins.com/">Find Jim on 2.5 Admins</a></li><li><a title="Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/">Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7La9Z-XrCE">TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106026/2089-days-uptime-techsnap-300/">TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106086/the-next-generation-techsnap-301/">TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes </a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120317/a-farewell-to-dan-techsnap-347/">TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120687/server-neglect-techsnap-348/">TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 389: Jim's first time as a guest" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128101/the-future-of-http-techsnap-389/">TechSNAP 389: Jim's first time as a guest</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 390: Jim's second guest appearance" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/390">TechSNAP 390: Jim's second guest appearance</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128656/back-to-our-roots-techsnap-393/">TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128941/the-acme-era-techsnap-395/">TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show</a></li></ul>

May 15, 2020
429: Curious About Caddy
<p>Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Caddy offers TLS, HTTPS, and more in one dependency-free Go Web server" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/caddy-offers-tls-https-and-more-in-one-dependency-free-go-web-server/">Caddy offers TLS, HTTPS, and more in one dependency-free Go Web server</a></li><li><a title="Caddy 2" rel="nofollow" href="https://caddyserver.com/v2">Caddy 2</a></li><li><a title="Caddy v2 Improvements [slightly out of date]" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/wiki/v2:-Improvements">Caddy v2 Improvements [slightly out of date]</a></li><li><a title="Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source · Issue #2786 · caddyserver/caddy" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786">Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source · Issue #2786 · caddyserver/caddy</a></li><li><a title="Revert "Implement Caddy-Sponsors HTTP response header" by lol768 · Pull Request #1866 · caddyserver/caddy" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866">Revert "Implement Caddy-Sponsors HTTP response header" by lol768 · Pull Request #1866 · caddyserver/caddy</a></li><li><a title="Intel’s 10th generation desktop CPUs have arrived—still on 14nm" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/intels-comet-lake-desktop-cpus-are-here/">Intel’s 10th generation desktop CPUs have arrived—still on 14nm</a></li><li><a title="Intel Comet Lake 10th Gen CPU release date, specs, price, and performance" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-comet-lake-release-date-specs-performance/">Intel Comet Lake 10th Gen CPU release date, specs, price, and performance</a></li><li><a title="10th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/10th-gen-core-desktop-brief.html">10th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors</a></li><li><a title="US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/millions-of-gps-devices-at-risk-from-fcc-approved-5g-network-military-says/">US military is furious at FCC over 5G plan that could interfere with GPS</a></li><li><a title="The Pentagon's fight to kill Ligado's 5G network" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cnet.com/news/the-pentagons-fight-to-kill-ligados-5g-network/">The Pentagon's fight to kill Ligado's 5G network</a></li><li><a title="FCC Approves Ligado L-Band Application to Facilitate 5G & IoT" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-approves-ligado-l-band-application-facilitate-5g-iot">FCC Approves Ligado L-Band Application to Facilitate 5G & IoT</a></li></ul>

May 1, 2020
428: RAID Reality Check
<p>We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</p> <p>Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-worlds-fastest-processor-epyc-rome-7fx2-cpus">AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs</a></li><li><a title="AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc-7f52&num=1">AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/new-cloudflare-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-isp-has-deployed-bgp-fixes/">New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes</a></li><li><a title="Is BGP safe yet?" rel="nofollow" href="https://isbgpsafeyet.com/">Is BGP safe yet?</a></li><li><a title="RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/">RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing</a></li><li><a title="Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer" rel="nofollow" href="https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/">Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer</a></li><li><a title="systemd/Timers - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers">systemd/Timers - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="systemd.time (Time format docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html">systemd.time (Time format docs)</a></li><li><a title="systemd.timer (Unit docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html">systemd.timer (Unit docs)</a></li></ul>
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